EUPICAPRA 995 



RUPICAPRA PYRENAICA Bonaparte. 



18i5. Rliqncapra] pyrenaica Bonaparte, Atti della sesta Uiuiiioiio dcgli 



Scieuziati italiaui, Milano, 1844, p. 337. 

 1878. Antilope rupicapra var. Riitimeyer in Trutat, Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. 



Toulouse, xii, p. 117. 

 1910. Rupicapra rupicapra Trouessart, Faune Manim. d'Europe, p. 235 



(Part ; in synonymy only). 

 1910. Rupicapra rupicapra pyrcnaica Cabrera, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loudon, 



p. 998. December, 1910. 



Type locality. — Pyrenees. 



Geographical distribution. — Pyrenees. 



Diagnosis. — Colour of winter pelage distinctly less dark than 

 in Rupicapra rupicapra ; markings on neck essentially as in 

 B. ornata ; horns about perpendicular, placed more closely 

 together than in the other species, the very nari-ow region of 

 frontal between bases of horn cores single concave ; teeth weak. 



Measurements. — -Adult male from the Pyrenees (no exact 

 locality), from skin : head and body, 1140 ; tail, 40; hind foot, 

 344 ; ear, 95. For cranial measurements see Table, p. 997. 



Specimens examined. — Three, all from the Pyrenees, no exact locality 

 (B.M. and U.S.N.M.). 



Bemarks. — This veiy distinct species was accurately described, 

 though not recognized by name, by Riitimeyer and Trutat, in 

 1878.* Since then, until mentioned by Cabrera in 1910 (in 

 description of B. parva), it appears to have been completely 

 overlooked."!" 



1 st. Pyrenees. Purchased (Boubee). 48. 2. 5. 7. 



RUPICAPRA PARVA Cabrera. 



1910. Rupicapra rupicapra, parva Cabrera,, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lordon, p. 999, 

 December, 1910. Type in Madrid Museum. 



Type locality. — Picos de Europa, Santander, Spain. 



Geograpliical distribution. — Cantabrian Mountains, Spain. 



Diagnosis. — Described as smaller and darker than Bupicapra 

 pyrenaica, and with throat-patch very ill-defined, scarcely paler 

 than general colour of body. 



Measurements. — Type (adult female) : height at shouldei-, 

 570 mm. ; length of horn along anterior curve, 146 (Cabrera). 



6 St. Picos de Europa, Cantabrian J. W. R. Lee (c & p). 97. 1. 7. 3. 

 Alps. 



* Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Toulouse, xii, pp. 115-117. 



t See Lydekker, Great Game of P^urope, Asia and America, p. 185, 1901. 

 Trouessart places the name pyrenaica in the synonymy of rupicapra. 



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